Clothes or mop wringer.



N0.-vz3,687. PATENTED MAR. 24 1903; l

A. s. LENNA. CLOTHES 0R MOP WRINGER.

v lAPPLIOATION FILED 116.14, 1902.

No MODEL.

L L' ummm 7- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW S. LENNA, OF CANTON, SOUTH DAKOTA.

CII OTHES OR MOP WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,687, dated March 24, 1903.

'l Application tiled August 14, 1902. Serial No. 119,608- (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, ANDREW S. LENNA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, county of Lincoln, State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes or Mop Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a wringing apparatus, being specially intended for use as a mop-wringer, although it may be used as a clothes-wringen The object of the invention generally is to improve the construction of devices of this character whereby they may be more convenientlyoperated; and the invention consists of certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be more fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the accomvessel to which it is attached. Fig. 2 is a sec' tional view on the line a; :t of Fig. l, showing the rollers in position to effect the wringing. Fig. 3 is a similar view, also on the line a: of Fig. l, showing one roller withdrawn from the other. Fig. 4 shows a modiied form of roller which may be substituted for those shown in the other views.

A indicates a vessel, which may be of any suitable material and will preferably be rectangular, although it may be of other forms, and it may be provided with legs a, as shown in Fig. 1, or they may be omitted, as in Fig.

3. Near one end of the vessel bearings b bl between two spring-metal bars G, said bars being secured at their lower ends, as indicated at g, to the inner face of the end of the vessel remote from the roller B. The upper endsof the bars G entend slightly above the I upper edge of thevessel' and are bent to form eyes h, and a bolt 't' extends through these eyes and the lever F, as clearly shown in-Fig. l. The bars G are curved, so as to throw their upper ends inwardly away from the end of the vessel to which the bars are secured and toward the roller B.

K K indicate arms bent to suitable form and pivotally connected to the opposite sides, respectively, of the inner end f of the lever F, which is preferably broadened, as shown, by means of a bolt k or similar device. v The other ends of the levers are perforated and tit loosely over the journals e of tle roller E, so that the journals can turn` freely in the perforations in the arms.

Such being the preferred construction, the operation will be as follows: The outer end of the lever F will be elevated, and this will result in bringing the lever, 'the arms K, and roller E to theposition shown in Fig. 3, and the article to be wrung may then beV placed between the rollers and against the roller B. The lever F will then be depressed and will result in moving the roller E toward the roller B, and when fully depressed, as shown in Fig. 2, the pivot k will be in a plane above that of the pivot t' and be also above that ofthe guideways for the journals e, and as the edgeof the vessel will prevent further downward movement ofthe outer end of the lever F the springbars G will lock the roller in its forward position, but they will yield sufficiently to permit an article of considerable thickness t`o be moved upwardly between the rollers, such movement being preferably effected by rotating the roller B by the crank C. The operator can thus use one hand to turn the crank and Y the other to hold the article being wrung. It is not essential that the crank Q be employed, as' the article could be pulled through between the rollers.

Sometimes for .wringing out very bulky articles rollers with flanges on their ends may be employed, as indicated by B' and EI in Fig. 4.

The springs should be of a strength to eX- ert considerable pressure on the roller E toward the roller B.

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Without limitingmyself to the precise details ofconstruction illustrated and described, I claim- 1. In a wringing apparatus, the combination with a vessel of a roller journaled in xed bearings on the Vessel, a second roller the journals of which are supported to slide in guideways extending longitudinally of the vessel to and from the other roller, springbars secured to the vessel and extending above it, a lever pivoted between its ends to said barsin a plane above that of said guideways, and arms pivotally connected at one end to the inner end of the lever and at their other ends tothe respective journals of the second roller, substantially as set forth.

2. In a wringingr apparatus, the combination with a Vessel,o1:` a roller journaled in fixed bearings on the upper edge of the vessel near one end thereof, spring-bars secured at their lower ends to the inner face of the opposite end of the vessel and extending above said vessel and curved inwardly toward the said roller, a second roller the journals of which are supported to slide in guideways extending longitudinally of the sides of the vessel, a` lever pivoted between lits ends to said bars in a plane above said guideways, and arms pivotally connected at one end to the inner end of the lever and at their other ends to the re spective journals of the second roller, substantially as set forth.

In testimony' whereof I, ANDREW S. LENNA, have signed my name to this specification, in the presence ofV two subscribing witnesses, this 9th day of August, 1902.

ANDREW S. LENNA. Vtnesses: r

H. N. COOPER, STEPHEN ORRE. 

